When we first started with AC, I used a laptop in the room hooked up to our network wirelessly. This worked fine but on occasion the wireless wouldn't connect for some reason.
We now have rather inexpensive "newer" used desktop PC's running XP hardwired to our network (gigabit). We got the PC's rather cheap and this has worked really well (except when our RAID connector died, but that's another post).
I recently bought an iPad for personal use. I installed Logmein on it. I don't find it practical for daily use in the clinic. It's a bit slower and harder to use. I would say if you were on-call and needed to remote in to look at the chart it works fine. But for daily use I find the wired desktop PC's are the way to go.
